MESSI PICKS BRAZIL, FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS FAVOURITES

Lionel Messi picked Brazil, France and England as the biggest threats to his dream of adding a World Cup winners’ medal to his cabinet. “Whenever we talk about candidates, we always tal about the same teams,” Messi told South American Federation. “If I have to put some above others I think Brazil, France and England are a little bit above the rest. But the World Cup is so difficult and so complicated that anything can happen.” Messi reached the final with Argentina in 2014 but lost in extra-time to Germany.